Reply #27: They won't in four years. [View All]

[Marr]

The Republican establishment is going to thoroughly demolish Palin over the next four years. They're going to use her as the prime example of why Republicans cannot afford to pander to evangelicals with anything more than rhetoric.

Seriously, I think the Republican establishment was disturbed by the Palin phenomenon this year. The evangelical problem-- something they've all seen coming for years-- finally came to a head. Evangelicals tired of being held at arm's length and demanded one of their own on the national ticket. And worse-- their influence within the party had grown so much that this demand had to be taken seriously.

The traditional owners of the Republican Party do not want to reliquish control to a bunch of loony theocrats. Just as the DLC fights constantly to marginalize the left, the corporate section of the GOP is working to exorcise the evangelicals-- or at least stick them back in their impotent box.